Author Topic: Negligence on Valves part? (Read 281 times)

ALF · « **on:** October 08, 2003, 06:52:24 PM »

While the theif that stold the Half-life 2 source code is certainly to blame, I cant help but feel that there is a very large amount of responsibility that rests with the developers who let themselves be victimized. I in no way think its fault for being the targets, it sure is their responsibility to have some protections set in place to keep just the kind of stupid theft from being possible.

ah well

just ticked off at the ignorance of letting your multimillion dollar project be stolen with a stupid email trojan, and now its 4+onth delayed.......or is that just an excuse....hmmmmm

Chairboy · « **Reply #1 on:** October 08, 2003, 06:55:57 PM »

Question, do you use Outlook or Outlook Express? If so, you're begging for trouble.

Real men telnet to their mail servers and issue POP3 commands by hand.

ALF · « **Reply #2 on:** October 08, 2003, 06:59:04 PM »

I wouldnt touch an email program that ran scripts or HTML

Chairboy · « **Reply #3 on:** October 08, 2003, 07:06:38 PM »

You anti-firewall dummies want a good reason for an personal firewall that runs on your computer instead of at your gateway? Here's a perfect example:

Any email client I use, I configure the allowed access in my firewall. It can only retrieve mail. It cannot do anything else, not even port 80 (http). Why is this important? Well, have you ever gotten a piece of spam that had pictures in it? The moment you see those pictures, you have likely confirmed with the spammer that your address is not only live, but you read the messages. That's right, lots of spam will use IMG tags in HTML that don't just point to an image, they point to something like: spamhause.com/images/hotteens.cgi?recipient=loserboy@wushu.com. The CGI script then returns the data stream to the picture, but just by seeing the picture in your preview pane, you've inadvertently sent a message to the spammer saying HI! SPAM ME! SELL MY ADDRESS AS LIVING!.